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  • seriously. where did all the ethics go?

    seriously. where did all the ethics go?

    I find it interesting that people actually think that it’s okay to have a reputation like this new Supreme Court Justice (just confirmed) – even a scent of it, really isn’t a good thing for a judge – yet, it was his desires over his country – as he said that this had destroyed his reputation and been detrimental to him, his family, the Supreme Court, and the country – in that word order.

    A man truly caring – who stated so in the reverse of that word order, would have withdrawn his nomination and written a book.

    Now he is at risk of having taken a life appointment and of potential impeachment if lawmakers decide to pursue this at a later date.  A full FBI investigation could be invoked at any time that enough people suspect that it is warranted.

    The suggestion of this behavior really does point out that political gain has penetrated every part of the government.  The corruption has now spread into all parts of the government – and with this judicial confirmation process, it is clear that the best candidate in their view isn’t a qualified candidate with the highest ethics – it’s whoever will do what the political party who wants to win at all costs wants him to do – decide cases based on their beliefs and their platform, regardless of whether it is within line for the whole country – the scales are now tilted until such time as they can be balanced at some point, years into the future.

    More of the same – more of the same to further the dramatic change of this country into what?  Certainly not change for the better.  It is now a crude, unethical, lying, criminal on the bench – who could not even admit to what he did in his youth – he lied, he covered up, and people who should have stopped the process effectively blamed the victim and turned vehemently against her and the rest of the country who finds this utterly shameful.

    Yeah, we’ve all known guys like him.  Those guys that made a living hell for a few girls that they singled out as their “victims” to get their jollies off in some sort of warped way – frat boys who thought that they were better than everyone else (or maybe they are actually scared little boys with some hang-up that drives them to behave this way) – it’s the Lord of the Flies mentality – and it seems that these guys do get away with this – and this proves to them that they are right – different rules for different guys in different schools according to what family you come from, the club you’re in, the color of your skin and how much “wealth” you represent.  The Silver Spoon club – the future “judges” – politicians – world leaders – above it all.

    Sure – it’s fair, right?  We should just look the other way and disbelieve the lady who came forward – all of the ladies that came forward, actually…  Their word is not valuable here.  Because, “he deserves this appointment… he worked hard for it!”

    Some black actor can be sent to prison for this – some others not in “the club” can be forced to resign – some entertainment mogul can be arrested – others totally forced out of the business…

    But after all – how dare we take away what was rightfully his?  He worked hard for many years.  He deserves this.  He thinks last of his country, and first of himself.  There it is in black and white.  Just keep this in mind in the future…

  • hackers and whackers

    hackers and whackers

    This hacking stuff really does your head in.  You would think that these people have something better to do.

    Stephen King.  He has a theory that ties to basic good-evil, yin-yang, whatever one your 31 flavors of the dark-light nature of human beings enables you to select at the moment.. well, we see this in all of these behavioral demonstrations of “Pinky and The Brain” chasing for world domination.  The Donald vs. Kim.  The POTWG’s vs. everyone else…  King had his Dark Tower series, and The Stand… and others of his works, where “good v. evil” is always the pervasive underlying theme.

    My question is this:  If you succeed at World Domination, what are you going to do then?  Don’t go there…

    Right now, the latest “hack du jour” is a spammer who is taking a warning message from my security software and re-routing it through an email from (supposedly) Twitter.  Really?  Why?  Go figure.  Is it just a show of “See what I can do to make you feel really confused???”

    So, it is either (a) phishing, (b) spoofing, (c) something more 3v1L.  Things that make you go “Hmmm….”

    Just yesterday, my OTHER anti-malware anti-virus anti-evil software kept finding a trojan horse in my Outlook executables.  Well, isn’t that s-p-e-c-i-a-l ????

    Why me?  Just messin’ with the old lady…

    “Ass-clowns!!!”, as my son who is no longer with us would say.  I say, why for God’s sake are you messin’ with me?

    The answer is “because that is what we do – we “mess with people”  – that is our goal in life is to just “mess with people”.  Yessir, I guess that is what they view as a valid goal in life…  as good a mission as anything that they can think of…

    It’s not my belief system, and as I endear the phrase, “not my circus, not my monkeys…”  BUT, guess what?  These monkeys get out and get into your stuff… unfortunately, this is when they do become “your monkeys” to face and figure out a way to make them back-off.

    Poor upbringing by people who either did not care about instilling what is right-vs-wrong in their kid’s brain at the right age – or were too stupid or too destitute or too tired or let’s see what else… Again.  Don’t go there.  Child abuse?  Too permissive?

    Too many reasons to count – some that are not even imaginable by some – what does that sound like?  So those excuses – of poverty, of torturous upbringings, of lives of living in that unreal world of not having parents, of not having anyone to guide you – those are the susceptible who become the disenfranchised.

    So.  That leads us to why this might be.  Well, it could be… POTWG!  Agggghhhh!

    The Planet of the White Guys, AKA those crazies out there that have been within the lifestream forever – If I were a bettin’ woman…  One day, there will be a discovery that all of this POTWG stuff is in the D’NAah…

    It’s likely some itty-bitty teeny-tiny bit on the chromosome blah-di-blah that causes this belief system tendency and the susceptibility towards subscribing to it.

    It takes a special combination of (1) being chronically pissed off, (2) not taking responsibility for whatever it is that ended up making you pissed off and making you generalize the responsibility out to someone who you can just target and throw all that angry energy towards… right?  (3) seeking out some old crap passed from gen to gen that you can point to (the Confederacy, or any you-name-it rationalization for racism, bigotry, and whatever fear-based behavior that you have, then (4) beginning this evil insanity of rounding up and hurting those who live within your delusional belief system to satisfy yourself that you are “doing something about this perceived problem” using whatever vehicle you can, might be literal or figurative or both.. like “the top Idiot”, for instance.  He is an “enabler” – stroked by the admiration rah-rah in his narcissistic neurotic addiction to it – being a blow-hard bully, one of his favorite pastimes which feeds into what these horrid people take as affirmation.

    Its a perfect hurricane!  Wow-za Wow-za – and the news it generates just adds fuel to the fire… Missing Chet Huntley and David Brinkley right about now in their calm collected demeanor of not being too excitable, so as not to cause UTTER FRIGGIN ‘PANIC…

    I know, I know… you think I sound like some kind of nut!  But guess what?  I have lived over six decades!  I actually have lived through some days where we have been there, done that more than once!  We have seen wars and witnessed divisions, and watched people try to heal these — and yet, there it is — it pops up again, just like WACKAMOLE!  It is something that in my “wisdom”, I am beginning to realize is a fact of life…

    The question is, can we, once again get back to the point of where we might be able to avert disaster?  One step forward, a thousand steps back, it seems…

    Disappointing.  Depressing.  Simultaneously, events are occurring that lead you to go out and read Revelations and Nostradamus and anything else you can get your hands on, because you are looking for hope, not doom.

    Even Stephen Hawking is now revising his forecasts, and that is something sad.  100 years, he says.  That is down from the prior most recent of 1000 years to planet extinction.  Do the math.  In his next one, it might be 0 – because from 1000 down to 100 in a short period of time is a very difficult number to accept.

    Some of my relatives just try not to play the game, but you know what?  It’s hard in the modern world to NOT have an email address.  It is hard to not have to participate and remember logins and passwords.  It just is that type of situation today, where you just have issues if you don’t at least play minimally… News is so fast.  Sigh.

    Poor old people who never educated themselves and those who refuse, today… but maybe they are lucky or not.  They may become innocent victims of all of this nonsense…  The cellphone that has a picture of a man, and a woman for dialing up the mom or dad… or son or daughter… same thing, different decade.

    Remember, that if this continues, your pleasant view out your window might drastically change to something that you would rather pull the shades down and shut out.

    What can you do?  What can one person do?

    Sit back and drink up that Bombay Gin with the double-alcohol that you didn’t take back to the store?  What the hey?  If it is all going to go up in “flames and fury” – might as well go out without feeling it!  How did I get to be so cynical?

    I quit newspapers a long time ago – then slowly, I felt out of touch, so now I read at least three or five… And articles, and listen to NPR, sometimes…

    You can’t miss a thing.  You can’t make this stuff up…

    ‘Gosh, Kiddo, your grandma didn’t want you to ever read this… It is just too dark.’

  • OK, it is getting bad now. Are you guys going to do something?

    OK, it is getting bad now. Are you guys going to do something?

    Yes.  It is extremely beyond the realm of disturbing.  Those who experienced the days of Watergate most certainly are trying to relate these days to those days, but there are many changes that have happened during the time since that make these days so wild and crazy that those days look like a scene out of Currier and Ives – and if you don’t know who that is, let’s just say that was serene by comparison.

    In January, I asked you to consider the tomato.  Well, that was then and this is now.  Still keep your eye on the tomato, as it is important.  What is more going on is that we have an unpredictability that has created an underlying anxiety and tension, an uncertainty that we only thought we imagined would happen – those of us who worried at the outcome in November 2016.  As for those who wanted someone who would “disrupt” – well, you got that and everything you did not wish for besides.

    The recently publicized meeting of the “staff” called into my memory the Twilight Zone of the 1960’s.  In situations, where there was a “disturbed” person who had a grip on everyone, the interfaces were all so extremely polite and no one dared to speak ill of the “disturbed” person – only we, the viewers of The Zone, knew that this was not going to end well for anyone unless someone got brave enough to sneak out (somehow impossible), and run like hell to the nearest neighbor with a phone.  No cell phones back then, no sir.  Yet, today, we have rapid communication, constantly buzzing – and no one comes to the rescue!  Good grief – if only they knew what they had at their fingertips!  Imagine the ones that didn’t get away… Yikes.

    Let’s check this off:  One crazy family (kind of like The Addams Family, but weirder), a “whimsical” leader, who is more like a crazy monarch than an elected official.  Sometimes he acts sort of normalish, then other times, he just can’t keep under control – kind of like that old uncle that you might have had once, who everyone had around on holidays, but winced the entire time until he left… And then there’s Twitter.  And the media.  And all of the “pundits” who have an opinion who really are not doing anyone any favors – just keeping us all stirred up all the time, 24 X 7.  Did you notice that this “leader” does not ever stop – he works all the time!

    And he is 70+  Holy Moly!  It’s shocking and wrong in so many ways that it does your head in… seriously.  And that “wife” of his… Bless her.  Can you even imagine what she is thinking?  There’s the “Daughter-Wife” and the “Son in Law” and then the band of loosely related “brothers”, and of course, “Little Sister” who is going off to become a lawyer – seriously?  Right.

    As you know, six months of collecting all of this thinking, it’s worse than predicted at this point.  No one seems to want to do anything and some people even think that “it’s OK – we just need to give “him” a chance” – whaaaaat?  Let me ask you, do you think he would give YOU a CHANCE?  Not in your life.

    It is all truly disturbing – that is an understatement.

    Stay tuned folks, it won’t be long before the shit hits the fan:  what’s your bet?  Will we see “tipping point” within the year?

    The rumbling has begun – and what is it that they say, “Let’s rumble?”  No, it’s not okay and hopefully, someone will do something and be a hero – get us back to the middle where we belong…

    June 14, 2017 – Flag Day